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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

[Jonathan] Edwards bases this distinction on the difference between two ways of knowing. On the one hand, there is knowledge that is merely speculative, notional, a mere cognitive awareness of some truth. On the other hand, there is what Edwards calls “the sense of the heart” in which one recognizes the beauty or amiableness or sweetness of that truth and feels pleasure and delight in it. It is the difference between knowing or believing that God is holy and having a “sense” of or enjoying His holiness. “There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.” Thus “when the heart is sensible of the beauty and amiableness of a thing, it necessarily feels pleasure in the apprehension.”
Sam Storms

Bible – English_World – Psalms Chapter 26:1-12.

Index: World English Bible

 

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26:1 <> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

26:2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

26:3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

26:4 I have not sat with deceitful men, Neither will I go in with hypocrites.

26:5 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.

26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;

26:7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, And tell of all your wondrous works.

26:8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, The place where your glory dwells.

26:9 Don’t gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

26:10 In whose hands is wickedness, Their right hand is full of bribes.

26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

26:12 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.